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From: Warren Young <wyml@etr-usa.com>
To: The Vulgar and Unprofessional Cygwin-Talk List <cygwin-talk@cygwin.com>
Subject: Re: GCC 4.8 & cygwin32 vs. cygwin64 packages and installers
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2015 14:10:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <99006DC9-589D-4757-832F-8CDA638E6884@etr-usa.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <55F18327.406@parasoft.com>

On Sep 10, 2015, at 7:18 AM, Tomasz Pona <koczis@parasoft.com> wrote:
> 
> This explains me everything except the versions available: 4.8 is still available as cross-compilers, but not as the standard one.

Different people maintain those two package sets, and each package maintainer is free to set their own policies for what constitutes the current and previous versions of any given package.  

Your observation that one maintainer does one thing and another does something different does not bind the other maintainer to behave the same way.

If you want old versions of Cygwin packages, dig them out of the Cygwin Time Machine:

  http://www.fruitbat.org/Cygwin/

  reply	other threads:[~2015-09-10 14:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-09-10 11:23 Tomasz Pona
2015-09-10 12:18 ` Marco Atzeri
2015-09-10 13:18   ` Tomasz Pona
2015-09-10 14:10     ` Warren Young [this message]
2015-09-10 14:46       ` Tomasz Pona

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